#Science Fiction eBooks

[joncronshawauthor]

Free and Discounted Fantasy and Sci-fi ebooks –February 16, 2024

In this special blog post, we’re thrilled to guide you on a journey through the most captivating realms of fantasy and science fiction. Here, you’ll find an array of free and discounted books, each a gateway to adventures untold. Simply click on the book fair images to discover your next favourite story.

[dduane]

The Ebooks Direct Bank Holiday Sale continues!

The June bank holiday in Ireland is upon us, and as a result we're holding a sale to let folks pick up some extra reading for those upcoming (we hope!) long afternoons in the sun.

All our bundles are 50% off until next Tuesday morning (i.e., 8 AM Irish Daylight Time, or midnight US Pacific time).

This sale includes the Whole Store Package—the entire DRM-free contents of our store—which with the 50% discount is reduced to $35.00 (for 36 ebooks! Plainly we need our heads felt). The discount also includes the All The Wizardry bundle (all Diane Duane's Young Wizards ebooks), the Feline Wizardry bundle, our Pride Month Bundle, and the new Middle Kingdoms Bundle.

As always, all our books are DRM-free, so that you can move them around among your devices as you please. And naturally when you buy from us you’re also buying our guarantee of lifetime free replacement of your ebooks should you lose them or change platforms. (Because why should you pay for ebooks twice? Honestly.)

Interested?

Please use this link (which has the discount baked in) to go to the store, choose a bundle, and put it in your shopping basket. The discount will apply itself once your bundle’s in the basket and you begin the checkout process. All you need to do then is check out using your preferred method of payment.

Thanks very much for your interest!

(UK residents: unfortunately we can no longer sell to you directly due to Brexit. Our apologies! At the start of Q3 of 2024 we’ll be opening a special British-facing site at ebooksdirect-annex.com to assist our potential customers from the UK. We hope you’ll visit us there.)

ETA, June 5th: Seeing that @neil-gaiman reblogged this late yesterday, I've told the store to keep the discounts running for another week or so, so that no one's disappointed. Thanks Neil! ❤️

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TUCSON (Mar 9-10), then San Francisco (Mar 13), Anaheim, and more!

It's been 21 years and 29 days since Tor Books published my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. In the years since, Tor has published every one of my novels, sending me around the USA and Canada to talk about them. Now, they've teamed up with Humble Bundle to sell 18 of my ebooks on a name-your-price basis, with part of the proceeds going to benefit EFF:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cory-doctorow-novel-collection-tor-books-books

I've been associated with EFF even longer than I've been published by Tor! My first novel came out while I was working EFF's first-ever booth at CES. I split my time between the booth and my motel room, where I paid $0.25/call to dial up to Earthlink's local number and manage the launch-day publicity. Over the years, I've benefited immensely from Tor's editorial and publicity departments, working with brilliant publishing people like Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Patty Garcia, Dot Lin, Laura Etzkorn, Elena Stokes, Sarah Reidy, Lucille Rettino, and of course, Tor founder Tom Doherty.

But I like to think that it was a two-way street. Tor and I have come a long way together on ebooks: most visibly, they allowed me to publish several novels under Creative Commons licenses (my first book was the first ever CC book, coming out just weeks after the licenses themselves launched). As my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden said at the time, "Ebooks have the worst hours-in-meeting-to-dollars-in-revenue ratio of anything in my publishing career. Why not?"

https://craphound.com/down/download/

Just as important – but less visible – was Tor's willingness to let me insist that all my books be published without DRM, meaning that anything you buy on say, Amazon, can be moved to any reader program if you decide to start getting your ebooks elsewhere. This worked so well that in 2012, Tor became the first major publisher in the world to ban DRM on all its ebooks, flying me, John Scalzi and Charlie Stross to New York City to announce it this at a big, splashy event at Book Expo America:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130512022634/https://tor.com/blogs/2012/06/tor-books-announces-e-book-store-doctorow-scalzi-a-stross-talk-drm-free

Tor's unique status as the sole major DRM-free publisher in the world was well timed! That same year, I curated the very first Humble Ebook Bundle, which was very top-heavy with Tor titles, and raised more than $1,000,000 for the writers, publishers and charities associated with it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121017215636/http://www.humblebundle.com/

That opened the floodgates to a series of Humble Bundles, tempting other major publishers to dabble with DRM-free, including Simon and Schuster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-I5QyAfglU

And Harpercollins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHMLfeCrCrE

Now, 12 years after that inaugural Humble Ebook Bundle, I find myself honored by being the subject of a bundle of my own (it helps that I've written a hell of a lot of books in the intervening years). Included in the bundle are (nearly) all of my Tor novels and novellas: The Lost Cause; "The Canadian Miracle" (a Lost Cause story); Red Team Blues; Radicalized; Walkaway; "Party Discipline" (a Walkaway story); Pirate Cinema; Rapture of the Nerds (with Charlie Stross); For The Win; Makers; Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Eastern Standard Tribe, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother, Homeland, Attack Surface, and "Lawful Interception" (a Little Brother story).

(The sole exclusion is The Bezzle, which came out two weeks ago and is already a USA Today national bestseller!)

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Also included in the bundle is Poesy the Monster Slayer, my 2020 picture book for the littlies:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627/poesythemonsterslayer

All these books are delivered as DRM-free epub files. The Bundle runs for the next three weeks, and the minimum buy-in is $18 – that's just $1/book (full retail value is $187). Of course, you can name a higher price, and, as with all Humble Bundles, you can adjust the final split to share out the money between me, EFF, and the Humble folks.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/03/humbly-bundled/#eff-too

[autumngracy]

Book Bundle

To the Southern Reach and beyond

Discover the haunting and imaginative worlds of Jeff VanderMeer, author of the acclaimed Southern Reach books, and a host of other standouts in the surreal and discomfiting “New Weird” genre. The Southern Reach books invite you to explore a mysterious, ever-changing landscape of Area X, which challenges the very boundaries of reality. Catch up on this celebrated series ahead of the fourth novel Absolution, due out this Fall. You’ll get 11 of VanderMeer’s books in total, including Borne and Hummingbird Salamander. Plus, your purchase helps Trees, Water & People!

This is the author of Annihilation (which is included in this bundle), the book the 2018 movie of the same name was based off of.

[d34c0nfr0st]

Amazon.com: Deacon Frost: books, biography, latest update

I write harem novels! Those are men's romance novels with a focus on one man falling for multiple women through the course of the series. While my books do include explicit content that is not a requirement for these kinds of books.

In my case I have series that fall under the categories of LitRPG, Cultivation, Tower Climbing, Science Fiction, Dungeon Core, Fantasy, and Adventure. The main characters range from a poor blacksmith who gets turned into an incubus to a dragon in a cultivation world. There's also a fae dungeon core, a regular college student isekai'd into a new world, and a space trader framed by a megacorporation.

[writerofweird]

THIS BOOK IS A WORK OF PARODY, AND CONTAINS DEATH, GORE, PTSD, WAR, FOUL LANGUAGE, GUNS, WEAPONS AND REFERENCES TO BODY HORROR, HOMOPHOBIA, SEXISM, TRANSPHOBIA AND SUICIDE.

All profits from this book will be donated to Gendered Intelligence. The book is free but you can donate if you wish.

Rebecca is a trans lesbian raven from the planet of Aviarn, working as a bounty hunter while dealing with PTSD from the death of her girlfriend and the transphobia she's received. On one job for the goat-headed mad scientist Dr. Harriet Caprin, she encounters The Grinning Worm, a large worm-like being with mechanical limbs and bizarre powers. At first, Rebecca sees the Worm as the embodiment of all her pain, but soon learns they have more in common than she first thought, and something much worse is lurking in the shadows.

All you need to know about the inspiration for this story is that when I was young, I loved a certain character from a certain video game and a certain cartoon but then I found out that the certain character’s certain creator was a horrible hateful bigot.

[minaminokyoko]

It’s finally cover reveal day! My new novella, Of Wings and Shadows (Of Cinder and Bone #5.5) is here.(Cover art by BRose Designz) Synopsis below.

In a modern-day world teeming with marauding dragons, there is only one solution: The Wild Hunt. The United States government has decided to hold a tournament called The Wild Hunt to determine who will be responsible for the capture of wild dragons by the Knight Division. The four challengers Noah Wilson, Charlie Howard, Su Jin Han, and Beowulf have to catch five deadly dragons alive if they want to win the tournament and become the new Knight Division dragon hunters. Their journey will take them through the mountains of South Carolina, the seas of Key West, the caverns of Ruby Falls, the Redwood forest, and finally, the murky bayous of Louisiana. Will they succeed against their competition, or will the dragons of the Wild Hunt be too wild to tame? Of Wings and Shadows is the sixth book in the Of Cinder and Bone series. It takes place in medias res of Book Five, Of Claws and Inferno. It follows Of Cinder and Bone, Of Blood and Ashes, Of Dawn and Embers, and Of Fury and Fangs.

Release date: July 22nd, 2023

Pre-order now for only .99 cents. The price will increase on July 23rd. Add it to your Goodreads TBR shelf as well. 

Haven’t read the other books in the series yet? I gotchu, fam. 

And don’t forget--Of Cinder and Bone is a permanently free ebook on Amazon and all other platforms! 

...please clap.

[hazelmcnellis]

📣 Es ist endlich da! 🎊

*Buchwerbung

Nach 2,5 Jahren, Tränen, Freude und noch mehr Hirnschmalz, ist das #ProjektApokalypse endlich abgeschlossen und veröffentlicht. 😍

Das E-Book mit dem Titel "2118 - Im Visier der Monster" ist nun für schlappe 5,99 € in praktisch allen gängigen Onlineshops erhältlich, juhu! 🎉 Ihr kriegt es zum Beispiel bei Amazon, Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel, bol oder buecher.de und noch vielen anderen mehr.

Außerdem habe ich die Freigabe zur Onleihe in Bibliotheken erteilt, sodass es auch ausgeliehen werden kann - sprecht die Bibliothek eures Vertrauens also gerne darauf an, damit sie die entsprechende Lizenz erwirbt! 🧡

Ich danke euch, falls ihr es lesen mögt! 🙏🏼☺️

Hier hab ich noch den Klappentext für euch, um euch die Entscheidung zu erleichtern. 😉👇🏼

[djmunden]

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An amazing review of my novel, Dusk Mountain Blues. If this doesn’t convince you to read my book or support my Kickstarter, I don’t know what will!

[dduane]

The Ebooks Direct Summer Reading Month Sale: everything in the store is half price!

We've rolled back our ebook prices 50% on our entire inventory, right across the board!

This includes all our individual ebooks, our older box sets (such as the complete Young Wizards New Millennium Editions 9-volume sets), and our newer, already-discounted bundles... which are also reduced to 50% of their usual prices. Even the 36-book Whole Store Bundle is half off, matching its most deeply discounted price of last year.

As always, all our ebooks are DRM-free and can be used on multiple devices and moved from one to another just as you please. (See our sideloading guide to see how to get our ebooks into your device.) And should you lose access to your ebooks due to misadventure or a change in device platform, we'll replace them for free. (Because why should you have to pay for ebooks twice? Details of our free replacement guarantee are here.)

Please note that this sale is currently scheduled to end on July 31st, 2024, at 11:59 PM Hawai'ian time. Additionally, a note to our British friends: with regret, due to Brexit we are no longer able to sell to you directly, and you are unfortunately not eligible for this offer. Our apologies.

Meanwhile, stop by the store (or our sale page over there) and have a rummage through our inventory. (Please bear with it if it takes a moment to load: it does that sometimes.)

And if you're already all booked up, would you consider reblogging this for others' attention? Please & thank you! :)

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Digital:

💏Love After World Domination, Volume 6💏 By Takahiro Wakamatsu

🦍Forbidden love has blossomed between the leader of the heroic fighting force Gelato 5, Fudo, and a commander of the evil organization Gekko’s combat forces, Desumi.

Read Now

[autumngracy]

Book Bundle: Enter the Enderverse

Ready to experience some of the most challenging and evocative sci-fi ever put to paper? This bundle is your gateway to the beloved and influential Ender’s Game series. Follow young Ender Wiggin's journey from a brilliant child to a military prodigy as he trains to defend humanity against an alien threat. This bundle includes the core novels of the Ender Saga, including Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker for the Dead, and many more. Prepare yourself for a haunting exploration of morality, loss, and the heavy burden of leadership in a world where children are humanity's last hope. Plus, your purchase helps Covenant House.

[cjwhitcomb]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCZSXD4K

[featureenvyproductions]

OK I THINK I GOT IT DONE

Ok digital/pdf version of Eyan Eternal Volume 1.

This is basically everything in the volume 1 print version, including the bonus content (and I’ve also included the promo image that you’d get with the print version, at the end of the pdf content). But in pdf form. And as for the chapters themselves, well at 300 dpi, they’ll be a much higher resolution than the tumblr images or the images on my website, and that makes a lot of stuff clearer to read I’m sure. They also aren’t subject to whatever the heck weird image conversion happens when you put an image on tumblr (I would experiment with converting everything to srgb but like, the cat’s outta the bag at this point).

I have tried my best also to add alt text to these pages describing what’s going on over all. I gotta admit, I don’t know what processing gets done to these files when I upload them into the void, but I downloaded everything and it seems to still work, so I’ll just cross my fingers and hope for the best. (this is what was taking me so fucking long)

Anyway I got two offerings for you pals.

The difference between them is mainly that one is one big pdf, and the other is 5 small pdfs. We’ll get to why.

But anyway, you will find the single big pdf here at lulu.com:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/ej-gravis/eyan-eternal/ebook/product-9yqvd9.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Here’s the thing, I’ve had like a non-trivial amount of people tell me the digital downloads fuck up here sometimes. I haven’t gotten a complaint for a while but it DOES happen. I was paranoid about it happening. (Their tech support has gotten better though so let them know if it DOES. or if they really don’t resolve it you can let me know. I’ll try to figure something out)

So that’s why, if you don’t want to take the risk, I have another listing up on Etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/FeatureEnvy/listing/1500364015/eyan-eternal-volume-1-digital-edition?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1686376620579

This had to be put up as 5 pdfs because of Etsy’s file size limit, but other than that, it’s exactly the same content, just split up. As far as I know etsy doesn't do any weird shit to PDF files though so it's more likely to work.

I mean either way, I’m charging you 2.99 USD and both sites will eat me alive with the cut they take, so it’s really just like “do you want 1 file for the price of Uncertainty or many for the price of Inconvenient” (Actually I think I will get SLIGHTLY more from etsy sales and they show up in my sale count for my shop which is nice too. Because right now most of my sales come from in-person shows and local bookstores so if you’re going by my etsy sale count it looks like i’ve barely sold a damn thing and you have no reason to trust me)

Anyway like I’ve said before. I will ALWAYS have free versions of things, as long as I can afford to do things that way. But if you want to support me and help me pay my webhosting bill and supply costs, this does help offset those :)

regardless of how you read my things though i appreciate you reading thanks a bunch to anyone who does :):):):):)

Oh also, this SHOULD be available everywhere (unlike the print edition which is US only right now) at least on etsy.

[charliejaneanders]

Amazing news! My YA debut VICTORIES GREATER THAN DEATH is just $2.99 in all ebook formats (Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Apple, etc.) for the month of March!  Here’s your chance to get caught up before the third book of the trilogy, PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS, comes out on April 11!

Find out how Tina, a seemingly ordinary human girl, reclaims her heritage as the clone of an epic hero named Captain Argentian, and how Tina and her friends battle fascists while uncovering the secrets of the galaxy.